I have a super narrow pedaling stance and am looking for a saddle with a long very narrow nose. I basically rub the leather right off the side of any seat I ride. My last saddle was a bontrager RXL 128 and I took a dremal to the sides and shaved about 2mil off each side along the length of the nose and that was perfect but I would prefer to not have to perform home surgery if I don’t have to. Product suggestions?
You may want to try a noseless saddle like the Adamo, Dash, or that new Fizik one.
just posted this in another thread, Bontrager makes an adjustable Hilo RXL. pricey though.
You may want to try a noseless saddle like the Adamo, Dash, or that new Fizik one.
I agree. Also you can try the Sitero from Specialized. I also like the Bonetrager Hilo RXL, but the variable width’s narrowest nose is basically the fixed width standard version. But since the sit area gets wide quickly the nose ends up being effectively very short so I don’t think you would rub it at all because given that you say you have very narrow sit bones, you’ll be sitting well to the front of the saddle to support your narrow sit bones. The problem with Adamo, is there no variable sit bone width. The prongs are set to some mythical standard person’s sit bone width. If you are wider or narrower, the prongs don’t support you. That’s why when slowman first reviewed the Adamo he was talking about all these shenanigans about zip tying the nose…that’s because his sit bones are probably too side so he was sitting behind the prongs and then he had to zip tie the prongs so he was not riding a horse. The prongs need to be right under the sit bones or that category of saddle does not work. Sitero, in effect offers variable width “prongs” (really a triangular sit bone surface" as does the Bonetrager Hilo RXL, either of which will get rid of your “rubbing the nose” problem. The new Fizik Tritone looks promising too. I was tempted to buy that one (may still do that), but I never likes the “circular” fall off on the side of the Arione and Arione Tri. I like my saddles to be a flat surface to the end of my sit bones…I don’t want to feel like I am sitting on something like the convex surface of a baseball bat. My sit bones need to be on something flat.
I wear the sides of my saddle nose heavily even with the Arione which is the narrowest/longest nose I have ever seen.
The example of the Hilo RXL and Sitero look much shorter and much shorter.
I guess I should have specified road saddle. Very happy with my prologo tri saddle. The Selle Italia Slr monolink seems to be what I’m looking for. Although the Dash saddle does look prett sweet.
I’m a little late to the party, but remembered this post after working with a guy with similar issues. He tried out 5 saddles last night, and took the Cobb SHC home for a longer test. It’s very narrow at the tip. He owns a Sitero and a Cobb Plus, but both were too wide for him - the Plus was close, but he didn’t like the pressure points. We tried several others that measured narrow, but the SHC worked the best. Just thought you might want to look at that one.
Good luck!
I have been riding the Adamo Road and the Prologue for a few years and always felt the front prongs eating away at the inside of my thighs. Decided to try out the Sitero and while it is firmer, it was narrower at the nose. Rode it last weekend on a century ride with no problems.